No horse senseIn a race at Arlington International...

Off the beat

July 23, 1991

No horse sense

In a race at Arlington International Racecourse in Arlington Heights, Ill., Raving Main E Axe finished third. The horse was in a race was honoring the National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association.

Your serve or pitch . . . or money

French Open tennis champion Jim Courier, who quit playing baseball when he was 11, said he sometimes wishes he had stuck to swinging a bat instead of a racket.

For the love of the game, right?

"I could be making $3 million a year -- guaranteed -- if I was just batting .280 in the major leagues," Courier told Tennis Magazine. "Sometimes, I think the choice [of tennis] was pretty stupid."

And, had he played baseball, Courier then could tell a writer about all the money he'd have made in tennis.

Dept. of Dumb Records

In Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ashrita Furman, 36, did 2,693 knee bends, or squats, in an hour, breaking his previous Guiness Book of World Records mark of 2,551.

The last time Furman was in Canada, he scaled the staircase of Toronto's CN Tower on a pogo stick.

Trophy case

Six Arab states have postponed next February's Gulf Cup soccer tournament for seven months while they try to recover the trophy that was stolen by Iraq from Cup winner Kuwait.